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...Longwood Cricket Club Saturday afternoon, two members of the University tennis team were instrumental in gaining victory for Boston in the Church Cup competition with New York and Philadelphia. Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29, Crimson No. 1 man, and M. T. Hill '30, No: 2, both scored triumphs over Quaker singles stars in three set matches to add the necessary points for a Boston win. The results gave the local squad the decision five matches to four...
...Voted down 44 to 22, the 16-ship Navy building bill. (Chairman Thomas S. Butler of the House Naval Affairs Committee 72-year-old Pennsylvania Quaker, died in his Washington apartment within a few hours of the Senate's action. He had been prostrated since April by heart attack that followed his exertions in behalf of the Navy bill in the House. He had been in the House 31 consecutive years, longer than any other present member...
Died. Thomas S. Butler, 72, "fighting Quaker" Chairman of the House Naval Committee; of heart disease; in Washington...
...possible future Empress of Japan was graduated, last week at Washington, D. C., from the Friends' School, a stiff Quaker seat of feminine learning. The graduate, pretty, vivacious, and popular among smart Washingtonians, is Miss Setsu Matsudaira, daughter of Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira, and fiancee of Prince Chichibu of Japan, brother of the Sublime Emperor...
Realtor Ailing replied: "I cannot understand why some of my neighbors object to more millionaires per acre. None of my houses will have less than four bathrooms. . . . Hugh Garden rents from me now and so do Thomas W. Cloney, vice president of the Quaker Oats Company, John H. Hamline and William A. Jaicks. Joseph T. Bowen lived in my house for nine years and then bought...